Clothes peg



Dec, 9,

I A. HOLMES ET AL CLOTHES PEG Filed March 23 1923 Patented Dec. 9, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREW HOLMES AND GEORGE MEARNS, 0F DUNEDIN, OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND.

CLOTHES PEG.

Application filed March as, 1923. Serial No. 627,187.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANDREW Holmes and Gnonon Mnanxs, both subjects of King George V of Great Britain, residing at 410 Dowling Street, Dunedin. Otago, in the Dominion of New Zealand, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Pegs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes pegs commonly used for domestic purposes.

The object of the invention is to produce a peg that may, when not in use, be suspended from a clothes line.

The peg is made preferably from one piece of wire of suitable gauge and hardness to give the desired resiliency.

In the drawing accompanying this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the peg, and including a portion of a clothes line.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the peg.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the peg showing a fragment of a garment, and indieating the method of pegging to the clothes line.

There are eyes 1 and 1 formed at the end of the wire; a crutch 2 is formed, whereupon the eyes 1 and 1 are secured after the wire is fashioned to form a peg; there is a twisted portion 4- curved to form a loop 5, for suspension from the clothes line.

There is a projecting member having parts 3 and 3 produced approximately from the point 7 at the start of the inter-twist; the parts 3 and 3 of the said member diverge from the said point 7 increasing the width of the loop 7 thus formed gradually to wards the crutch end of the peg, the widest part being approximately at the crimp 3 There is a projecting member having parts 8 and 8 opposing the member with parts 3 and 3 the said member with the parts 8 and 8 is produced approximately from the point 9 at the start of the inter-twist and projects towards the crutch end of the peg where the eyes 1 and 1 engage with the said crutch 2. The parts 3 and 3 and the parts 8 and 8 of the projecting members are so curved and fashioned that for a fraction of their length they are in alignment with each other at 3 Figure 2; the member 8 being between the parts 3 and 3 of the diverging member at the 3 position.

Referring to Figure 3, there is a fragment 66 of the garment indicated at 10 on the line 6; the peg has been inverted on the line and drawn downwards over the corner of the garment indicating the method of pegging.

hat we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A clothes peg made of wire formed at one end to present a comparatively wide loop whereby the peg may be hung upon the line when not in use, and legs projecting from the terminals of the loop and movably interconnected remote from the loop, said legs having a mutual formation to provide a space between them adjacent the interconnected ends, and aclamping portion intermediate said space and loop, the space serving to clampingly confine the article and clothes line when the peg is in operative position, the clamping portion serving to directly clamp the article below the line when the peg is in operative osition.

2. A clothes peg ma e of wire strands together formed into a loop and projected from. the loop to form legs, the strands forming one leg being projected from the loop in spaced relation and terminating in a bar at substantially right angles to the loop, the strands of the other leg being projected from the loo in substantial contact with each other and being immediately below the loop projected into the plane of the spaced strands of the first mentioned leg to provide a clamping portion, the strands of the second mentioned leg being terminally connected to the cross bar.

3. A clothes peg made of wire strands together formed into a loop and projected from the loop to form legs, the strands forming one leg being projected from the loop in spaced relation and terminating in a bar at substantially right angles to the loop, the strands of the other leg being projected from the loop in substantial contact with each other and being immediately below the loop projected into the plane of the spaced strands of the first mentioned leg to provide a clamping portion, the strands of the second mentioned leg being terminally conset our hands in presence of two subscribing nected to the cross bar, the spaced strands Witnesses.

of the first mentioned leg being bent out- ANDREW HOLMES. weirdly from the strands of the second men- GEORGE MEARNS. tioned log intermediate the clamping por- W'itnesses:

tion and cross bar. JOHN THOMPSON,

In testimony whereof We have hereunto HENRY SIMPSON. 

